The Watsons Bay House - Super Colossal’s first project - was today granted planning approval by the AAP at Woollahra Council.
We better get drawing…
- Barry Manilow lived there and so could you for a mere $15-25 million. Richard Neutra’s Palm Springs icon, the Kaufman House, is being auctioned by Christie’s and is the latest in a series of modern architectural masterpieces that have become trophy homes for serious collectors. IHT article.
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- A band in the UK has made their film clip by performing their song in front of a series of CCTV cameras, then requesting the footage under the Freedom of Information Act and editing it all together.
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- Did you accidently end up with a room with no access to daylight? No worries! The Sky Factory is your answer!!
Previously and equally terrifying: The Verilux Happylight Deluxe Sunshine Simulator#
- Flogos – floating corporate logo clouds made of bubbles. At this stage, still a bit lame, but the potential of DIY signage clouds is rather rad. Via The Morning News.
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Venice has banned the feeding of pigeons in St. Mark’s Square to reduce health risks and prevent further damage to the historic buildings. Via IHT.
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- Dave Bowker has been taking the news from one week of the Guardian print edition and represents it visually. Thursday is pretty good.
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- Too good: If London Were Like Venice. Reassembled into a more coherent inline-image-tastic form at Strange Harvest.
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- The World Architecture Festival taking place in Barcelona is calling for entries for their awards program. There are 16 categories – we love categories – and projects must have been completed between 1st Jan 2007 and 20 June 2008.
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- Young Architect. A blog.
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- Today in product news:
Piazza Trays: Cool
Wet X-Light MP3 Basin: Stupid.
Infinity Aqaurium: Awesome.
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- “In what is being called the first conceptual terrorist attack on American soil, the landmark Sears Tower was encased in 18 million tons of strawberry gelatin early Monday morning, leaving thousands shocked, angry, and seriously confused.” Via the ONION.
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- Bored? Coudal have a fun logic puzzle competition running. We have submitted a solution, which is hopefully correct.
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- Piet is an esoteric programming language that uses coloured pixels as code. “Program code will be in the form of abstract art.”
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- A proposal to create 6mil sqm of space under the historic zone of Amsterdam. The project – AMORFA (Alternative Multifunctional Underground Space Amsterdam) – proposes building six levels of tunnels beneath the canals housing roads, parking, recreation facilities, cinemas and so on. Via Archinect.
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- In an article on Sean Godsell’s Glenburn House, we hear that “eighty percent of Australians live within 80 miles of the sea; 50 percent of the country’s houses sit less than 8 miles from a beach.” I don’t really know how far a mile is but, it sounds good to me.
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- Siteless: 1001 Building Forms. Looks fun.
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- Omni Consumer Products Corporation brings products from films into the real world marketplace. So far they have produced 10,000 bottles of Brawndo the “Thirst Mutilator” and the replacement for water in the excellent Idiocracy. NYT article.
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- Remember that 27-storey house in Mumbai businessman Mukesh Ambani? Well, it looks like the architect did not end up getting the gig for the interiors…
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- “Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.” A prototype radio commisioned by the BBC.
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- A nice interactive graph of the average US consumer’s spending. Via Infoaesthetics.
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Lyons House – Robin Boyd
Monday, 5th May 2008 Tweet
A few weekends ago, I was fortunate to visit the Lyons House by Robin Boyd. The visit was organised by the Boyd Homes Group - a bunch of Boyd crazies and Boyd home owners up from Melbourne for the weekend. We got word of it from Mr Dan Hill, so Antoinette, Dan and I jumped in a car and headed down to The Shire, to check it out.